"Post-PC Computing" Is Not a Vision

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Summary
Allen Wirfs-Brock discusses the various computing eras and the change we are currently going through, leaving the PC era and entering a new one characterized by mobility, clouds, HTML and content.

Bio

Allen Wirfs-Brock is a Mozilla Research Fellow and currently spends most of his time thinking about the future of the JavaScript. He was project editor for ECMAScript 5, the latest edition of the JavaScript standard. He’s a reformed Smalltalker who was a technical and entrepreneurial leader during the slow rise and rapid decline of Smalltalk as a mainstream programming language.

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